A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Inside this library turned museum, the history of Modesto and Stanislaus County is on full display.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.